Pocahontas errr ummm Avatar only Oscars it would deserve to get are Oscars for Special Effects... As for Best Picture... No... It was a popular movie, However it was a cheesy predictable plot redone over and over again.
Man is an outsider goes to a new area with a group of people who trust him. Man meets up with a chick in new area who he connects with and a culture he feels like he is less of an outsider in. Man finds the group that he was with are actually doing bad things to the new group he likes. Man Burns the Candle at the both ends for a bit. One side and/or the other find out about him. Man gets separated from both groups. Man chooses which side he should be on. Man kicks the butt of the opposing side.
The nature of Copyright Piracy has changed but the laws haven't.
Back in them olden day. For a severe copyright infringement it took a good amount of resources. For books you needed a printing press, for music you needed to be able to grind and duplicate records. It needed expensive equipment, and experience labor to really cause a big infringement. And the laws penalties where heavy because the fine needs to big enough to make sure people don't want to go down that path and invest so much in an illegal activity.
Today it takes more work not to commit a Copyright violation. Near every consumer has a computer which can make duplicate copies of information, it is more convent to Rip a CD and store it on your drive, or when looking for some media to just download a copy, and if someone wants a copy you can just send it over to them. No copies of tapes where after the 3rd or 4th copy it becomes near unusable. Or photocopies of photocopies.... You get Mint or at least second copy perfection every time over and over again. It is cheap and your 6 year old kid can do it. But the laws are still based on the old way, and its fines are weighed as such.
Laws need to be redefined for fare use and copy. Make sure the fines appropriated for the crime... 10000 downloaded movies and songs... $100.00 fine. If you are being more active and have a dedicated server pushing that data to the general public you will expect to be fined more. Appropriate take down grace periods with rules that puts more pressure on the accuser to prove that they are the victim.
As a researcher writing papers is part of your job. Almost every job requires you to do something that sucks.
Your paycheck doesn't come out of thin air. If it is a Government Grant then it is coming out of Tax Payers, if it is from the university it is from Students Tuition, Grants (Public (Government(Tax Payers)) and Private (Rich People/Companies), Alumni etc... Basically a group of people who hope to see their money put to good use, that will make their lives more profitable or help the general community.
Now for these people who are paying you, they need to see some results for their pay. Is it optimal... No but it makes good business sence to give out some output just to keep the payers happy.
The FDA checking the safety of a Food/Drug for general public consumption. Just because it is legal elsewhere it doesn't mean it is safe for public consumption. When the FDA lets a dangerous food and drug go free, they will get people yelling at them for not doing their job. If the FDA bans a food or drug that isn't as dangerous, it is the strong arm of the mighty big brother keeping us poor folk who use this stuff as a cheap replacement for a 50' Boat, and 3 Vacation homes, from having any joy in our lives at all.
Not to mention that these Andorid and iOS devices are things people are going to buy anyways. If you are going to shell out hundreds of dollars for a device... 1. If it is a phone, then you can justify it as useful to daily living. 2. Does it have business/educational usage. 3. How well supported is it and will it last me enough time for me to get sick of it.
Finally how well does it play games.
Android and iOS doesn't absolutely suck at games. For the most part they fill the void that games do, help you pass the time, and have some fun. A dedicated mobile gaming system, isn't really that popular anymore, not because the competition is better at games, it is because the other devices are good enough, and good enough at other things too where a dedicated device will stink at.
Once every 3.5 years for a new car? The national average is 12 years for a car.
My 2002 Toyota (150,000 miles) is just starting to come up with some minor issues that needs to be corrected, Usually under $1000 for the fixes every 6 months. I am in the process of looking for a new car right now mostly because I want to get a car with a better fuel economy, as gas is getting to expensive. And the cost of buying a new car is getting near the offset of the cost in fuel Ill save.
Trucks: Chevy/GMC, Ford, Toyota, Dodge Other then Nissan what other truck manufacture (that has more then 1 model (Honda Ridgeback)) is there? Really I would like to know, there seems to be a small selection small-midsized pickup trucks.
So science is only climate science and evolutionary biology. If you disagree with the popular findings in this field then you must be against all science.
I prefer C# over Perl. I must be anti open source.
I did a calculation a while back that compared a middle grade teachers salary with an engineers. I took into account the normal days off from holidays+summer vacation that teachers normally get, compared them to the Holidays and standard vacation time an engineer gets. With a standard 8 hour day from an engineer and a 10 hour day from a teacher. It worked out that the engineer was only getting paid a small amount more. I think 1 dollar an hour difference.
Now that 10 hour day is an average that teachers bitch and moan about to me, however from friends who are teachers I usually see them working up to 12 hours some day and 6 - 8 hours the other... So 10 hours seemed fare. Most engineers I know work more then 8 hours a day to but they don't complain about it as much.
Teacher have a powerful union behind them (My personal feeling is Unions are holding good teachers back from getting what they deserve but that is too much digressing) that makes sure that they are treated fairly most engineers do not have such protection.
But this anti-Math and Science from teachers starts well before they are teaching. Normally for anyone graduating from High School who is choosing a major a Teaching degree is one of those that you can get that has an obvious career path that doesn't require heavy Math and Science, so they go that route. I went to college I know education majors, I saw the classes they took, I saw their masters classes too... They are joke classes to give them a degree.
The Poor teacher excuse is getting really lame today. For they are a few groups without strong math or science skills who can get a decent middle class job, they are not going to be rich but they will be able to pay their bills and feed a family.
The reason why the US is Lacking in Math and Science is most teachers Hate and are Afraid of Math and Science and past that hate of learning to their students.
I would say if you have a small customer base it may be the best policy to change a string somewhere in your code that doesn't really do much. When you compile the program that string is there. For each customer recompile the program and give them a different string.
Download the pirated version it check the string and see which customer did it, and sue them. None of this destructive DRM stuff. However you can track who did it.
Sure this can easily be defeated, however being that the program works fine after it copied and moved most people will not think of really looking trying to crack it. And if you put it in a different spots with different codes, and do a little bit of different logic to each string, it will take them a while, In the mean time you will be raking in the money suing your bad customers for copyright infringement.
Linux is a server OS, not a Desktop OS, no matter how much you want it to be, Linux success is in servers. The Desktop Linux users is only a small percentage, of Developers and Open Source advocates, or family of them. Not that I am saying Linux is bad, it is their niche isn't in the Consumer Level products without heavy modification such as Android or WebOS is. Being that it is a Server OS there isn't that much of a need of an Office suite. What would be handy for Linux would be a set of libraries for developers that will allow for Office compatible input/output.
Secondly Linux biggest and most vocal fans are the Open Source crowd... They don't care much for Microsoft, or Closed Source Solutions. So it will be difficult for Microsoft to get a foot hold in Linux and make any profit off of it. LibreOffice/OpenOffice is really good enough for most of the Linux User needs and it Open Enough to sleep clear minded.
There is already Office for the Mac... Making office for the iPAD and Office for Android (I am not counting as Linux as most development is Java Based) and Office For Windows Mobile makes more sense. First the end users are use to Closed Source Software and are not going to give an it is Not Open Source Fit, Next they are consumer products that is Microsoft Main target for Office. Third it will open the door for mobile apps to Microsoft. By Embracing the iPad it will allow them to Extend their influence in the Mobile market and in time Extinguish the competition.
And those words they can't say really help the students how?
Fuck: used to express an extreme usually negative. Shit: the same as "stuff" usually of poorer quality. Piss: usually ment that you want to degrade something. Cunt: Usually as a way to insult woman or challenges a mans sexual preference. Cocksucker: usually as stating someone is a cheat or morally deplorable. Motherfucker: something that is really bad. Tits: this is more often to refer the the breasts and nipples. Can be used to degrade ones manly qualities.
These words are often used because they are unable to come with the proper vocabulary word of the time. Shows when someone is being more emotional then thoughtful.
Also pedafiles tend to use such language to get kids attracted to them.
They couldn't tell their students "that they need to get their act together"
Teachers are often children's only source of professional adults they come across. The teacher really need to be sure that they are professional in their jobs.
Oh come on... Now that Microsoft has been pushed to #2 with Apple #1 we have to start liking Microsoft and Hating Apple. As the only true measure of intelligence is hating what is popular and mainstream.
Because we as Americans do not understand what a trade off means.
We want clean energy but we don't want power facilities near our homes. Nuclear is clean however it needs to be done right and there are too many complaining about the scary Nuclear and are unfortunally happy when they see a problem with a facility because it shows they are right. Except a more responsible approach would be to support nuclear energy understand that it will be a long term investment and make sure it is done right and any mistakes will need to be fixed the right way before damage comes along, can solve many of our big pressing problems and only create smaller manageable problems.
The issue with automated cars is for people to see that it is automated and really not to try to get a behavior change out of the car. Normally if someone thinks I am driving to slow they will tail gate me and make gestures of of frustration. Now I will see this and will provoke me to change my behavior.... If I am in a good mood Ill either speed up or just change lanes and let them drive by. If I am feeling like a jerk I will slow down and position by car with other cars in other lanes so they cannot pass me, of course the last time I did this I was disappointed because I saved the jerk behind me from getting a speeding ticket.
No if you have ever ridden with someone with manual transmission you realize this isn't true. If you are going to get car sick it will be riding with someone who drives manual. Not so much that that are any better or worse. However when they change gears they tend to do it harder then on Automatic. So you feel jolts when they change. The driver doesn't notice this as much as he/she is expecting it, so it doesn't cause as much an issue.
Having drove manual for a while, I have been complements on how smooth I shift gears, however for people who haven't rid much in manual cars they are still feeling like I am driving sporadic.
In many ways these conditions can probably be safer with an automatic car then with a real driver.
There are some rather common ways dealing with these situations. But people when in a situation where their car isn't doing what they want they panic and stomp on the breaks which is usually better then nothing, however for cases where friction is reduced there is the general mind set. A car can change directions, accelerate/decelerate. However in reduced friction environment you can only do one. If you need to turn take your foot off the gas and turn slightly, if you need to stop stop without turning, if you need to speed up do so without turning, the car may still feel funny but normally for these cases there is only a few feet of travel until you get back onto a normal friction road, then you can correct your mistake. People panic stop and turn, then the car gets into an accident.
A good compromise is coming to an agreement where both sides are unhappy. Sell them to the highest bidder. Then split the money. If you can't sell it destroy it.
shared data: Delete it... Or make a duplicate copy of it... accounts: Close them and make yourself new ones. Domains: Sell it to the highest bidder and split the cash. hosting: Copy the data split it if you can, make duplicate copies and delete the rest. Then cancel your hosting. email: Shared Emails what are you some type of idiot... Well email everyone with your new email and cancel your old one. sensitive data backups: Divide what is yours and what is hers. If you both need it you make a copy of it. social media: change your relationship status.
Being however had asked such a stupid question I would expect what will happen is your ex will get it all. As you are either really dumb or gullible, to share such items... Or you are so dense that you can't realize that digital data can be copied.
However if you have any common sense you are going to remember to try to be fare with your divorce. If your not, you will be the bad guy.
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Pocahontas errr ummm Avatar only Oscars it would deserve to get are Oscars for Special Effects... As for Best Picture... No... It was a popular movie, However it was a cheesy predictable plot redone over and over again.
Man is an outsider goes to a new area with a group of people who trust him.
Man meets up with a chick in new area who he connects with and a culture he feels like he is less of an outsider in.
Man finds the group that he was with are actually doing bad things to the new group he likes.
Man Burns the Candle at the both ends for a bit.
One side and/or the other find out about him.
Man gets separated from both groups.
Man chooses which side he should be on.
Man kicks the butt of the opposing side.
The nature of Copyright Piracy has changed but the laws haven't.
Back in them olden day. For a severe copyright infringement it took a good amount of resources. For books you needed a printing press, for music you needed to be able to grind and duplicate records. It needed expensive equipment, and experience labor to really cause a big infringement. And the laws penalties where heavy because the fine needs to big enough to make sure people don't want to go down that path and invest so much in an illegal activity.
Today it takes more work not to commit a Copyright violation. Near every consumer has a computer which can make duplicate copies of information, it is more convent to Rip a CD and store it on your drive, or when looking for some media to just download a copy, and if someone wants a copy you can just send it over to them. No copies of tapes where after the 3rd or 4th copy it becomes near unusable. Or photocopies of photocopies.... You get Mint or at least second copy perfection every time over and over again. It is cheap and your 6 year old kid can do it. But the laws are still based on the old way, and its fines are weighed as such.
Laws need to be redefined for fare use and copy. Make sure the fines appropriated for the crime... 10000 downloaded movies and songs... $100.00 fine. If you are being more active and have a dedicated server pushing that data to the general public you will expect to be fined more. Appropriate take down grace periods with rules that puts more pressure on the accuser to prove that they are the victim.
As a researcher writing papers is part of your job.
Almost every job requires you to do something that sucks.
Your paycheck doesn't come out of thin air. If it is a Government Grant then it is coming out of Tax Payers, if it is from the university it is from Students Tuition, Grants (Public (Government(Tax Payers)) and Private (Rich People/Companies), Alumni etc... Basically a group of people who hope to see their money put to good use, that will make their lives more profitable or help the general community.
Now for these people who are paying you, they need to see some results for their pay. Is it optimal... No but it makes good business sence to give out some output just to keep the payers happy.
You broke the first rule of Slashdot.
Though Shall not embrace two different methodologies.
You shall stick with one methodology until forced to change. When you do change you much embrace this with all your heart.
The FDA checking the safety of a Food/Drug for general public consumption.
Just because it is legal elsewhere it doesn't mean it is safe for public consumption.
When the FDA lets a dangerous food and drug go free, they will get people yelling at them for not doing their job.
If the FDA bans a food or drug that isn't as dangerous, it is the strong arm of the mighty big brother keeping us poor folk who use this stuff as a cheap replacement for a 50' Boat, and 3 Vacation homes, from having any joy in our lives at all.
Not to mention that these Andorid and iOS devices are things people are going to buy anyways. If you are going to shell out hundreds of dollars for a device...
1. If it is a phone, then you can justify it as useful to daily living.
2. Does it have business/educational usage.
3. How well supported is it and will it last me enough time for me to get sick of it.
Finally how well does it play games.
Android and iOS doesn't absolutely suck at games. For the most part they fill the void that games do, help you pass the time, and have some fun. A dedicated mobile gaming system, isn't really that popular anymore, not because the competition is better at games, it is because the other devices are good enough, and good enough at other things too where a dedicated device will stink at.
I don't know... This looks Photoshop to me.
Once every 3.5 years for a new car? The national average is 12 years for a car.
My 2002 Toyota (150,000 miles) is just starting to come up with some minor issues that needs to be corrected, Usually under $1000 for the fixes every 6 months.
I am in the process of looking for a new car right now mostly because I want to get a car with a better fuel economy, as gas is getting to expensive. And the cost of buying a new car is getting near the offset of the cost in fuel Ill save.
Trucks: Chevy/GMC, Ford, Toyota, Dodge
Other then Nissan what other truck manufacture (that has more then 1 model (Honda Ridgeback)) is there?
Really I would like to know, there seems to be a small selection small-midsized pickup trucks.
So it is a Hot and Steamy X O Planet.
So science is only climate science and evolutionary biology.
If you disagree with the popular findings in this field then you must be against all science.
I prefer C# over Perl. I must be anti open source.
I did a calculation a while back that compared a middle grade teachers salary with an engineers. I took into account the normal days off from holidays+summer vacation that teachers normally get, compared them to the Holidays and standard vacation time an engineer gets. With a standard 8 hour day from an engineer and a 10 hour day from a teacher. It worked out that the engineer was only getting paid a small amount more. I think 1 dollar an hour difference.
Now that 10 hour day is an average that teachers bitch and moan about to me, however from friends who are teachers I usually see them working up to 12 hours some day and 6 - 8 hours the other... So 10 hours seemed fare. Most engineers I know work more then 8 hours a day to but they don't complain about it as much.
Teacher have a powerful union behind them (My personal feeling is Unions are holding good teachers back from getting what they deserve but that is too much digressing) that makes sure that they are treated fairly most engineers do not have such protection.
But this anti-Math and Science from teachers starts well before they are teaching. Normally for anyone graduating from High School who is choosing a major a Teaching degree is one of those that you can get that has an obvious career path that doesn't require heavy Math and Science, so they go that route. I went to college I know education majors, I saw the classes they took, I saw their masters classes too... They are joke classes to give them a degree.
The Poor teacher excuse is getting really lame today. For they are a few groups without strong math or science skills who can get a decent middle class job, they are not going to be rich but they will be able to pay their bills and feed a family.
And Most US grade school teachers.
The reason why the US is Lacking in Math and Science is most teachers Hate and are Afraid of Math and Science and past that hate of learning to their students.
I would say if you have a small customer base it may be the best policy to change a string somewhere in your code that doesn't really do much. When you compile the program that string is there. For each customer recompile the program and give them a different string.
Download the pirated version it check the string and see which customer did it, and sue them. None of this destructive DRM stuff. However you can track who did it.
Sure this can easily be defeated, however being that the program works fine after it copied and moved most people will not think of really looking trying to crack it. And if you put it in a different spots with different codes, and do a little bit of different logic to each string, it will take them a while, In the mean time you will be raking in the money suing your bad customers for copyright infringement.
Why?
Linux is a server OS, not a Desktop OS, no matter how much you want it to be, Linux success is in servers. The Desktop Linux users is only a small percentage, of Developers and Open Source advocates, or family of them. Not that I am saying Linux is bad, it is their niche isn't in the Consumer Level products without heavy modification such as Android or WebOS is. Being that it is a Server OS there isn't that much of a need of an Office suite. What would be handy for Linux would be a set of libraries for developers that will allow for Office compatible input/output.
Secondly Linux biggest and most vocal fans are the Open Source crowd... They don't care much for Microsoft, or Closed Source Solutions. So it will be difficult for Microsoft to get a foot hold in Linux and make any profit off of it. LibreOffice/OpenOffice is really good enough for most of the Linux User needs and it Open Enough to sleep clear minded.
There is already Office for the Mac... Making office for the iPAD and Office for Android (I am not counting as Linux as most development is Java Based) and Office For Windows Mobile makes more sense. First the end users are use to Closed Source Software and are not going to give an it is Not Open Source Fit, Next they are consumer products that is Microsoft Main target for Office. Third it will open the door for mobile apps to Microsoft. By Embracing the iPad it will allow them to Extend their influence in the Mobile market and in time Extinguish the competition.
And those words they can't say really help the students how?
Fuck: used to express an extreme usually negative.
Shit: the same as "stuff" usually of poorer quality.
Piss: usually ment that you want to degrade something.
Cunt: Usually as a way to insult woman or challenges a mans sexual preference.
Cocksucker: usually as stating someone is a cheat or morally deplorable.
Motherfucker: something that is really bad.
Tits: this is more often to refer the the breasts and nipples. Can be used to degrade ones manly qualities.
These words are often used because they are unable to come with the proper vocabulary word of the time. Shows when someone is being more emotional then thoughtful.
Also pedafiles tend to use such language to get kids attracted to them.
They couldn't tell their students "that they need to get their act together"
Teachers are often children's only source of professional adults they come across. The teacher really need to be sure that they are professional in their jobs.
Oh come on... Now that Microsoft has been pushed to #2 with Apple #1 we have to start liking Microsoft and Hating Apple. As the only true measure of intelligence is hating what is popular and mainstream.
I agree!
However the question is should the speed of the sweep be proportional of the speed of the car?
Bum bada bum, bum baba bum, bum bada bum, bum, bummmm.
Because we as Americans do not understand what a trade off means.
We want clean energy but we don't want power facilities near our homes. Nuclear is clean however it needs to be done right and there are too many complaining about the scary Nuclear and are unfortunally happy when they see a problem with a facility because it shows they are right.
Except a more responsible approach would be to support nuclear energy understand that it will be a long term investment and make sure it is done right and any mistakes will need to be fixed the right way before damage comes along, can solve many of our big pressing problems and only create smaller manageable problems.
The issue with automated cars is for people to see that it is automated and really not to try to get a behavior change out of the car.
Normally if someone thinks I am driving to slow they will tail gate me and make gestures of of frustration. Now I will see this and will provoke me to change my behavior.... If I am in a good mood Ill either speed up or just change lanes and let them drive by. If I am feeling like a jerk I will slow down and position by car with other cars in other lanes so they cannot pass me, of course the last time I did this I was disappointed because I saved the jerk behind me from getting a speeding ticket.
No if you have ever ridden with someone with manual transmission you realize this isn't true. If you are going to get car sick it will be riding with someone who drives manual. Not so much that that are any better or worse. However when they change gears they tend to do it harder then on Automatic. So you feel jolts when they change. The driver doesn't notice this as much as he/she is expecting it, so it doesn't cause as much an issue.
Having drove manual for a while, I have been complements on how smooth I shift gears, however for people who haven't rid much in manual cars they are still feeling like I am driving sporadic.
In many ways these conditions can probably be safer with an automatic car then with a real driver.
There are some rather common ways dealing with these situations. But people when in a situation where their car isn't doing what they want they panic and stomp on the breaks which is usually better then nothing, however for cases where friction is reduced there is the general mind set. A car can change directions, accelerate/decelerate. However in reduced friction environment you can only do one. If you need to turn take your foot off the gas and turn slightly, if you need to stop stop without turning, if you need to speed up do so without turning, the car may still feel funny but normally for these cases there is only a few feet of travel until you get back onto a normal friction road, then you can correct your mistake. People panic stop and turn, then the car gets into an accident.
But shared email accounts?
I use gmail my wife uses yahoo... And we really don't care what each other uses.
Because it is free email account.
A good compromise is coming to an agreement where both sides are unhappy.
Sell them to the highest bidder. Then split the money. If you can't sell it destroy it.
shared data: Delete it... Or make a duplicate copy of it...
accounts: Close them and make yourself new ones.
Domains: Sell it to the highest bidder and split the cash.
hosting: Copy the data split it if you can, make duplicate copies and delete the rest. Then cancel your hosting.
email: Shared Emails what are you some type of idiot... Well email everyone with your new email and cancel your old one.
sensitive data backups: Divide what is yours and what is hers. If you both need it you make a copy of it.
social media: change your relationship status.
Being however had asked such a stupid question I would expect what will happen is your ex will get it all. As you are either really dumb or gullible, to share such items... Or you are so dense that you can't realize that digital data can be copied.
However if you have any common sense you are going to remember to try to be fare with your divorce. If your not, you will be the bad guy.